Job 22:3
Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
4Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
Psalms 39:1For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
Psalms 119:59I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
Proverbs 11:20The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:2-5
Third Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? 4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? Eliphaz here insinuates that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but it was a… Read the whole commentary →